The jOOQ User Manual SQL building Data types Built-in data types VARBINARY (byte[])

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VARBINARY (byte[])

Supported by ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

The VARBINARY data type represents a variable length binary type, or byte[] in Java, or Types.VARBINARY in JDBC.

Given the variable size characteristic, the VARBINARY type may or may not be accompanied by an explicit length flag. If absent, the default in most dialects is to set the maximum length available.

DDL support

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

createTable("t").column("c", VARBINARY(16))

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Access

CREATE TABLE t (
  c binary(16)
)

ASE, Sybase

CREATE TABLE t (
  c varbinary(16) NULL
)

Aurora MySQL, DuckDB, Exasol, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, Snowflake, Vertica

CREATE TABLE t (
  c varbinary(16)
)

Aurora Postgres, Postgres, YugabyteDB

CREATE TABLE t (
  c bytea
)

BigQuery, CockroachDB

CREATE TABLE t (
  c bytes
)

ClickHouse

CREATE TABLE t (
  c Nullable(varbinary(16))
)
ENGINE Log()

Databricks

CREATE TABLE t (
  c binary
)
TBLPROPERTIES(
  'delta.columnMapping.mode' = 'name',
  'delta.feature.allowColumnDefaults' = 'supported'
)

DB2, Derby, Firebird, SQLite

CREATE TABLE t (
  c blob(16)
)

Informix

CREATE TABLE t (
  c byte
)

Oracle

CREATE TABLE t (
  c blob
)

Redshift

CREATE TABLE t (
  c varbyte
)

Teradata

CREATE TABLE t (
  c varbyte(16)
)

Trino

CREATE TABLE t (
  c varbinary
)

Cast support

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

cast(field("c"), VARBINARY(16))

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Access

cstr(c)

ASE, DuckDB, Exasol, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, Snowflake, Sybase, Vertica

CAST(c AS varbinary(16))

Aurora MySQL, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL

CAST(c AS binary(16))

Aurora Postgres, Postgres, YugabyteDB

CAST(c AS bytea)

BigQuery, CockroachDB

CAST(c AS bytes)

ClickHouse

CAST(c AS Nullable(varbinary(16)))

Databricks

CAST(c AS binary)

DB2, Derby, Firebird, SQLite

CAST(c AS blob(16))

Informix

CAST(c AS byte)

Oracle

to_blob(c)

Redshift

CAST(c AS varbyte)

Teradata

CAST(c AS varbyte(16))

Trino

CAST(c AS varbinary)

The jOOQ User Manual SQL building Data types Built-in data types VARBINARY (byte[])

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